Friday, June 11, 2010

I'm sorry if you're frantic to have your test results back from Local MRI, but going to theER, hoping that maybe they'll be able to get them faster for you, for the same damn symptoms you saw me for 2 days ago in my office, is an absolute waste of everyone's time and money, including YOURS.

In fact, we'd already left a message on your answering machine AND voice mail that the test was fine (surprisingly, it even showed a brain), but you'd already gone to the ER for this incredibly stupid reason, and had turned off your cell phone when you got there.

This is the same person who grumbles that they haven't been seen faster when I've just staggered out of a full trauma on a kid who has been run over by a car. Oh, the fantasies I have of the things I will say and do on my last day as an ER nurse...they bring me joy.

And I bet they're upset that everything WAS normal on the MRI...I know a few people/idiots that get upset cause some blood/mri/other tests come back normal, when you think they would be happy, and they're convinced that the doctor has no idea what they're doing, eventhough they have nothing to do with the results...some people just make no sense...

Damn, DAMN, Double-Damn EMTALA!! We have absolutely, positively got to rework ER processes. Get an inital exam, and if life or limb are not in danger....home you go, or cough up the $500 or so deposit to be seen over in the "Minor Illness" wing.

And the above would also apply to Medicaid patients....even if it is only a $5.00 fee, it would put some "skin in the game" for these folks. How much longer can three or four hard working adults support ten or twelve freeloaders and malingerers!!

Welcome to my whining!

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